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wadding
[ wod-ing ]
noun
- any fibrous or soft material for stuffing, padding, packing, etc., especially carded cotton in specially prepared sheets.
- Surgery. any large dressing made of cotton or a similar absorbent material that is used to stanch the flow of blood or dress a wound.
- a wad or lump.
wadding
/ 藞飞蓲诲瑟艐 /
noun
- any fibrous or soft substance used as padding, stuffing, etc, esp sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose
- a piece of this
- material for wads used in cartridges or guns
Example Sentences
It is a pastime that requires next-level commitment, though, as Ioan often spends days deep underground at a time, digging passages, or wadding through partially submerged caves.
On some trips, the boys would convince Dad to play football, wadding up a sock to serve as their pigskin.
Composed of salvaged vintage linen or dupioni silk and stuffed with mattresslike wadding and sometimes pieces of wood for stability, they only look hard; in reality, they鈥檙e soft, even slightly yielding.
鈥淓xcellent,鈥 giggled Mr. Peckleman, crumbling the thirty-two cards in his hand, wadding them up into one extremely flammable paper ball.
He even recalls wadding up a piece of paper and throwing it in the trash in dismay.
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